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00:01 I'm John Carter in Moscow...
00:02 Now in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. 00:04 I'm John Carter in Petra... 00:06 Reporting from India... 00:08 In Columbia. 00:09 I'm John Carter. 00:11 Today on the Carter Report, 00:13 John Carter talks about 00:15 how to make America really great again. 00:21 Welcome back today. 00:23 Now, this is a pick up from the previous program. 00:25 We're talking today about 00:26 how to make America really great again. 00:31 In the previous segment, 00:33 I was talking about the great American work ethic 00:35 that we believe in working hard, 00:38 we don't believe in socialism. 00:40 I was telling the story 00:41 how I left home when I was a boy of 16, 00:43 went up into North Queensland and I learned to work. 00:47 I was not suffering. 00:49 People say, "That was terrible, 00:50 you know, didn't people come and help you." 00:51 Well, no, in those days it wasn't expected. 00:55 You got what you earned and I had to work hard. 01:00 I had a heritage though. 01:02 When Australia was... 01:04 What should I say discovered by the Europeans 01:09 about 230 years ago. 01:10 The people who came out to Australia, 01:13 those early Australians, 01:15 most of them came out 01:19 sort of third class. 01:21 You went to prison or you were sent, 01:24 the antipodes of the terrible punishment, 01:27 if you stole a loaf of bread 01:30 to look after your grandchildren. 01:33 So those people got out there with nothing, 01:36 dropped off in Sydney Cove. 01:39 There was nothing there 01:41 in the form of roads or building, nothing, 01:43 just a wild continent. 01:46 But people came out there with them 01:47 who were Anglican chaplains, 01:51 and they were not 01:52 what you'd call evangelical preachers, 01:54 but they believed in prayer 01:57 and they taught the convicts that they needed to pray, 02:01 and the convicts started out with two things, 02:04 praying to God and working hard. 02:08 So, you know, 02:09 I believe in the great 02:11 puritan work ethic through prayer, 02:15 and the early Australians were believers in God. 02:18 Don't let any modern day young person from Australia 02:21 say, no, no, no, we didn't. 02:22 No, they all believed in God. 02:25 I was brought up in a Bible believing country. 02:30 And through prayer and belief in God and hard work, 02:34 Australia has become one of the richest 02:38 and best nations in the world. 02:43 So I believe in this working. I believe in working. 02:49 I believe in hard work. I believe in honesty. 02:54 A good day's work for a good day's pay. 02:57 I don't believe in keeping people down 03:00 with awful wages, I think that's awful. 03:04 These are some pictures from my homeland. 03:07 This is the Gold Coast. 03:09 Some of the most beautiful cities, 03:11 some of the most wonderful places. 03:13 And then we come 03:14 to the United States of America, 03:16 and you go to places like New York City, 03:20 and after you've gone to New York City, 03:23 you go out into the countryside, 03:26 and you go to the Golden Gate, 03:28 and you see the beauty of America. 03:31 This is a magnificent country, 03:34 and we should never complain 03:36 if we had been born 03:38 in the United States of America. 03:41 Am I saying too much? Am I being too patriotic? 03:45 Make America great again by hard work I tell you 03:49 and faith in God. 03:53 Okay, here's another one of the great rules. 03:56 Practice the golden rule. 03:57 This is point number four, 03:59 "Aspects of this Righteousness, The Golden Rule". 04:04 What on earth are we talking about? 04:06 Well, take your Bible please 04:07 and come to Matthew 7:12, Matthew 7:12, 04:12 Matthew 7, Jesus said, 04:15 "Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, 04:18 do also to them, 04:20 for this is the Law and the Prophets." 04:23 You know what the golden rule is? 04:25 Do unto others 04:28 as you would have them do unto you. 04:33 Hear what I'm saying. 04:35 That includes caring for the poor. 04:38 That includes caring for the refugees. 04:42 That includes caring for the sick. 04:46 You know, what I'm saying? We need to care for the sick. 04:51 And that means not saying hate speech. 04:54 That means, if you don't like it, 04:56 then don't do it. 04:57 Jesus said, 04:59 "Do unto others 05:00 as you would have them do unto you." 05:02 No more hate speech 05:03 from the politicians in Washington, 05:06 the press and ordinary folks like you and me, 05:08 no more hate speech, it's antichristian. 05:12 You know, because Senator John McCain, 05:15 a war hero and an American patriot, 05:21 a straight shooter voted against a bill. 05:27 Someone shouted, 05:28 "Add a political rally, he needs to die soon." 05:34 What a shame? What a disgrace? 05:38 What an un-American expression? 05:42 I say to those people who claim to be Christians, 05:46 try reading the Bible. 05:48 Try finding out what Jesus said. 05:51 Try reading Matthew 5, Matthew 6, Matthew 7. 05:56 Today in this great country as in Australia 05:59 and other countries, 06:01 I say this to our lamentable shame, 06:03 there is a great ignorance of the Bible. 06:08 Hey, I'm a Christian, 06:09 what about Jesus, what He said, 06:11 "Love your neighbor as yourself." 06:13 Well, where is that? 06:14 Well, that's in the Bible, that's what Jesus said. 06:18 If you want to make America great again, 06:20 then stop the hate speech. 06:23 Treat others as we want to be treated. 06:26 And get back to the God of our fathers. 06:29 Now I was out walking on a hot day here 06:31 in this part of the world in Thousand Oaks. 06:33 I was up in the hills, 06:35 and I was charging up the hills, 06:37 in fact I was passing some bicycles. 06:40 They were going terribly slow but, 06:43 and I was perspiring. 06:44 I was foolish, 06:45 I had not brought a bottle of water with me. 06:48 Here I am going like crazy up these hills 06:51 in the middle of summer. 06:53 Young man came over to me and he said, "Sir." 06:57 Well now, he's got a few manners. 07:00 He's got a few manners. 07:03 Whatever happened to manners? 07:06 Sir, he said, 07:07 "Would you like a bottle of water?" 07:11 I said, "Can you spare it." He said, "I got two." 07:13 He said, "It doesn't matter, 07:14 I'm young and looks like you need it." 07:17 And he gave me a bottle of water. 07:21 As the little girl said, "Make all the bad people good. 07:27 And all the good people kind." 07:29 What we need for the religious people, 07:31 the so-called good people to become kind. 07:35 You can make America great again 07:37 by accepting this great truth. 07:39 Here it is, repentance. 07:43 Another part of this righteousness, 07:45 aspects of righteousness, 07:48 repentance, not a popular word. 07:53 I want you to take your Bible please now in the studio. 07:56 2 Chronicles. 07:59 2 Chronicles 7:13-14, God says. 08:04 Got it, turn to it. 08:06 "When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, 08:09 and command the locusts to devour the land, 08:11 or send pestilence among My people, 08:14 if My people who are called 08:16 by My name will humble themselves, 08:19 and pray and seek My face, 08:22 and turn from their wicked ways, 08:25 then I will hear from heaven, 08:27 and will forgive give their sin and hear their land." 08:32 Listen to me. 08:34 There is no greatness without goodness, 08:38 and there is no goodness without repentance. 08:44 That's what the Bible says. 08:46 I was listening to a man not long ago 08:49 who said on television, 08:51 "I never confess my sins, I don't confess my sins." 08:56 He has a disease worse than leprosy. 08:59 Because there is no heaven without repentance, 09:03 no greatness without repentance. 09:07 Repentance means turning from sin, 09:10 from pride, arrogance, 09:14 lying, cowardice, racism, 09:18 laziness, hate speech, the sins of the flesh, 09:24 prostitution, pornography, fornication, and violence. 09:31 There's plenty of room in America today 09:34 to become great again by repenting of our sins. 09:39 And our sins are standing like a great wall 09:43 between us and God. 09:48 No greatness without goodness, 09:50 no goodness without repentance. 09:52 Repentance brings healing, 09:54 and restoration, and forgiveness. 09:56 You know why we're so divided? 09:59 Because there's no repentance on either side of the divide. 10:02 Everybody is so self righteous. 10:04 Everybody is all ways right, 10:07 the other person is always wrong. 10:10 Repentance brings healing, and restoration, 10:12 and forgiveness in the family. 10:14 Every family, we need to repent of our sins. 10:18 Fathers need to repent of their sins 10:20 to their children. 10:21 Children need to repent of their sins 10:22 to each other. 10:26 And it brings healing in the nation. 10:29 No true greatness without goodness, 10:32 and no goodness without repentance. 10:36 We can't make America great 10:38 again until America is good again. 10:43 Now, America is facing a tremendous crisis. 10:45 You look at the debt, nobody talks about it anymore. 10:49 For a while everybody was talking about 10:51 this tremendous deficit. 10:52 What is it? Going up, up, up, up, up. 10:56 Nobody is talking about it anymore. 11:00 It's a cancer but there is a greater cancer. 11:03 It is a moral sickness. 11:06 Therefore we need repentance. 11:08 Point number six. Point number six. 11:13 This aspect of this righteousness 11:15 or this goodness that makes a nation great, 11:18 obedience to God's law. 11:22 And I want you to come to the words 11:24 of the great Moses, 11:25 Deuteronomy 6:17-25, notice it in the Bible. 11:30 Deuteronomy, the fifth book of Moses, 11:34 Chapter 6:17-25, 11:37 "You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord 11:39 your God, His testimonies, 11:41 and His statutes which He has commanded you. 11:44 And you shall do what is right 11:46 and good in the sight of the Lord, 11:47 that it may be well with you, 11:49 and that you may go in and possess the good land 11:52 of which the Lord swore to your fathers, 11:55 to cast out all your enemies from before you, 11:58 as the Lord has spoken. 12:00 When your son I asks you in time to come, saying, 12:03 What is the meaning of the testimonies, 12:05 the statutes, 12:06 and the judgments 12:08 which the Lord our God has commanded you?' 12:10 Then you shall say to your son" 12:12 'We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, 12:14 and the Lord brought us out of Egypt 12:17 with a mighty hand, 12:18 and the Lord showed signs and wonders before our eyes, 12:21 great in severe, against Egypt, Pharaoh, 12:24 and all his household. 12:27 Then He brought us out from there 12:29 that He might turn us in, 12:31 to give us the land 12:32 of which He swore to our fathers. 12:34 And the Lord commanded us to observe all these statutes, 12:38 to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, 12:42 that He might preserve us alive, 12:45 as it is today. 12:46 Then it will be righteousness for us, 12:49 if we are careful to observe all these commandments 12:53 before the Lord our God, as He has commanded us.'" 12:56 We are not saved by our obedience, 13:00 but we are not saved without it. 13:02 We are saved by the grace of God. 13:05 We are saved by the mercy of Christ, 13:08 but we are not saved to break the law of God. 13:12 We are saved to keep the law of God. 13:15 You can make America great again 13:17 by keeping the commandments. 13:19 Come over here to Isaiah 48, 13:21 the Book of Isaiah 48:18, 13:26 Isaiah 48:18, there it says, 13:30 "Oh that you had heeded My commandments! 13:33 Then your peace would have been like a river. 13:37 And your righteousness, 13:38 your righteousness like the waves of the sea.' 13:44 " Let me tell you something else 13:45 while we're on the subject. 13:47 Okay. 13:49 We can't make our own laws. 13:52 The Supreme Court can't change the law of God. 13:56 The Supreme Court can't say, 13:58 oh marriage is so and so, no. 14:00 That's not their authority. 14:04 The Word of God tells me 14:06 what is right and what is wrong. 14:10 And we will follow the laws of God 14:13 and the laws of man 14:15 when they are in harmony with the laws of God. 14:17 I still believe in the Ten Commandments. 14:19 The first four define 14:21 our relationships to the Creator, 14:22 the last six, 14:24 our relationships to each other. 14:26 All civilized nations have been based 14:31 on the Ten Commandments. 14:33 Every one of them, all the great countries. 14:40 The commandments of God, 14:41 a God's great antidote to crime, 14:44 sexually transmitted diseases, 14:47 divorce, child abuse, 14:51 drug abuse, poverty, racism, dishonesty, 14:56 and all those negative factors 14:58 that have been destroying America. 15:01 You can't make America great again 15:04 until you make America good again, 15:06 and you get good again 15:07 when you obey the commandments of God 15:09 through faith in Christ. 15:11 The mighty Roman Empire was destroyed 15:14 because she made war on God's Commandments 15:18 and the Lord Jesus Christ. 15:21 Who do we think we are? Think we're better. 15:24 Nothing can happen to us. 15:26 If we walk in the footsteps of the Roman Empire, 15:30 we will go down as the Roman Empire did. 15:36 But it's not too late 15:38 to turn to God and repent. 15:42 People in Washington who got tremendous problems, 15:45 they don't know what to do. 15:48 Well, try making America good again by being good again. 15:54 Righteousness exalts a nation. 15:57 When it says righteousness, 15:58 it means the goodness of God 16:03 permeating society. 16:08 Why is America been a beacon to the world? 16:10 Because America was based on 16:14 Judeo-Christian values, 16:18 that's the reason. 16:20 Number seven, 16:21 it's the seventh point in this righteousness, 16:25 it's going to take courage, 16:27 defend your given right 16:30 of freedom of speech and religion. 16:36 The greatness of America, 16:39 freedom of speech 16:41 and freedom of religion. 16:46 The First Amendment says. Look at it. 16:51 First Amendment, Congress shall make no law. 16:54 Respecting an establishment of religion. 16:58 The state ought to stay out of religion, 17:00 or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. 17:03 Don't tell me how to worship God. 17:06 Or abridging the freedom of speech, 17:09 or of the press, 17:14 or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, 17:18 and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." 17:22 It is right for the American people peaceably, 17:27 or peacefully to march and to demonstrate. 17:30 You say, "No, you can't." Yes, you can. 17:35 You're not living in Russia or China, 17:38 this is America, you see. 17:42 The First Amendment says, 17:43 freedom of speech and freedom of religion. 17:50 I want you to notice the Jefferson letter of 1802. 17:54 The Jefferson letter, gonna read it. 17:57 He said, "I contemplate with sovereign reverence 18:01 that act of the whole American people 18:04 which declared that their legislature 18:07 should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, 18:13 or prohibiting the free exercise there of, 18:17 'thus building a wall of separation 18:22 between Church and State.'" 18:25 Now today, I'm hearing a lot of talk about saying 18:29 that we should get rid of this wall 18:32 that separates church and state and we should declare 18:36 that we are a Christian nation. 18:43 That would take us back to persecution 18:45 and the dark ages. 18:49 We believe, I believe with Jefferson, 18:52 in spite of what some are saying today, 18:56 I believe with Jefferson, 18:58 thus building a wall over separation 19:01 between church and state. 19:02 And you know 19:04 why ministers get tied up in politics? 19:06 It's because they're failing to preach 19:08 the gospel of Christ. 19:10 Their churches are empty, they're dying, 19:13 and therefore they want political power. 19:15 I say to the ministry, do your duty, 19:19 preach the Word of God and stop playing politics. 19:23 When I was a boy studying at Avondale College, 19:27 I was taught these words by one of my old professors, 19:32 Pastor Heffron. 19:34 And I may have got it little wrong 19:36 because it's going back a year or two, 19:38 he said, 19:40 "I may disagree with everything you say, 19:44 but I will defend to my last breath 19:48 your right to say it." 19:51 Of course, the politically correct people 19:53 don't believe that. 19:55 They believe you can only say 19:57 something that doesn't offend them, 19:59 and we're breeding a race of namby-pambies, 20:02 "Oh, I've been offended." 20:05 Hey, grow up, get out in the real world, 20:06 would you? 20:08 You're going to get offended in the real world. 20:09 You come to work for me, 20:11 you'll get offended straight away. 20:13 Oh, I can't do this. No, I'll be offended. 20:16 We gotta have places in Berkeley 20:18 where nobody can ever be offended, so nobody... 20:23 What a lot of chunk, you know. 20:26 I may disagree with everything you say, 20:29 but I will defend to my last breaths 20:32 your right to say it. 20:35 This means this. 20:37 The Roman Catholic Church, 20:40 The Mormons, the Protestants, 20:43 the Muslims, the Jews, 20:45 the Hindus, the atheists, 20:47 the Adventists have the right to freely express their ideas 20:52 and their beliefs. 20:54 People have the right to be wrong. 21:00 Oh, people have said to me, "No, no, you've got it right." 21:03 You've only got the right to be right. 21:06 What you're gonna do, set up the inquisition again? 21:09 That's what they believed. 21:10 You've got the right to be right. 21:12 Every person has got the right to be wrong 21:15 because your wrong may be my right 21:19 and my right may be your wrong, you see. 21:23 Freedom of expression, 21:25 this right is recognized in America, Australia, 21:28 Great Britain, and other free countries. 21:30 Many American universities 21:35 restrict freedom of speech, 21:39 Berkeley in California, 21:40 they have 21:41 "the rule 21:43 of political correctness" 21:49 which makes cowards of all men. 21:53 That's what they happened in, 21:54 that's they did in Russia and China, 21:57 only allowed to say the party line. 22:00 You don't say the party line, 22:01 well, you're gonna go to Siberia. 22:05 Political correctness is un-American. 22:08 Therefore, 22:10 if you want to make America great again, 22:12 you've got to make America good again. 22:14 How? 22:16 There's a need to return to the Bible. 22:20 The Declaration of Independence, 22:23 the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights... 22:32 With faith in God, and love for each other. 22:38 America will be truly good and great again. 22:44 Now, let me read you something, 22:47 because this sort of sums up America to me. 22:50 This is Winston Churchill's favorite hymn. 22:55 "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: 23:00 He is trampling out the vintage 23:02 where grapes of wrath are stored: 23:05 He hath loosed the fateful lightning 23:07 of his terrible swift sword. 23:10 His Truth is marching on. 23:13 I've seen him in the watch fires 23:15 of a hundred circling camps. 23:18 They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps. 23:23 I can read his righteous sentence 23:26 by the dim and flaring lamps. 23:30 His day is marching on. 23:35 He has sounded forth the trumpet 23:37 that shall never sound retreat. 23:40 He is sifting out the hearts of men 23:42 before His Judgment Seat. 23:44 Oh! 23:46 Be swift, my soul, to answer Him, 23:49 be jubilant, my feet. 23:52 Our God is marching on. 23:57 In the beauty of the lilies Christ 24:00 was born across the sea, 24:03 With a glory in his bosom 24:05 that transfigures you and made: 24:09 As he died to make men holy, 24:13 let us die to make men free. 24:18 While God is marching on. 24:22 Glory, glory, hallelujah! 24:27 Glory, glory hallelujah! 24:32 Glory, glory hallelujah! 24:38 His truth is marching on. 24:45 This is the great song that 24:51 that great man heard, 24:54 after he heard it for the first time. 24:56 Abraham Lincoln heard it for the first time. 25:01 And eyes have seen the glory, 25:05 and he just wept as he heard it. 25:11 All this stuff it says, 25:16 we're no different to these other countries. 25:21 It's not the truth. 25:23 America, handful of others, 25:26 just a tiny number came out of the Reformation. 25:31 Those great countries have been 25:33 based upon the Bible and faith in the Creator 25:38 that says that every person is distinct and glorious. 25:44 Amen. 25:45 And if we would make this beloved country 25:48 that already is great. 25:51 If we would make America greater, 25:55 and better, and fairer, 26:00 then we must make her good, 26:05 and have this righteousness. 26:09 Therefore I say, 26:11 "May God bless 26:13 the United States of America." 26:17 Amen. 26:22 The word began in a village. 26:26 Churches and schools sprang up and multiplied 26:30 reaching into the city. 26:34 Great truths revealed 26:35 to the people of Papa New Guinea, 26:38 changing thousands of lives. 26:41 Our eyes are going to be opened 26:44 to the discovery of amazing truths. 26:48 The greatest truths in the Bible, 26:50 it is the truth that God loves you. 26:54 It has completely changed my life 26:56 and I'm going to be baptized this Sabbath. 26:58 Pastor Carter has put something in my heart 27:00 that I will never forget. 27:02 Thank you, Pastor Carter, for your program. 27:04 It has changed my life completely. 27:06 John Carter's Great Truths Revealed 27:08 was recorded live from Papua New Guinea. 27:10 Experience the miracles in this 21 DVD series 27:14 for a gift of $150 US, or $210 Australian. 27:18 To order, visit our website or call. 27:29 This is my 43rd visit. 27:36 To preach the everlasting gospel 27:38 of our Lord Jesus Christ. 27:50 And they had smoked bombs, and they had fire bombs, 27:53 and the Russian army had to take me 27:55 to the meetings. 27:59 I come here, my friend, because of the need. 28:02 These were days of grace, 28:05 and glory, and mighty power. 28:08 For a donation of $150 or more, 28:11 a signed copy of the John Carter biography 28:13 can be yours by writing to us at the address on the screen 28:17 or visit our website. 28:26 For a copy of today's program, 28:28 please contact us at PO Box 1900, 28:31 Thousand Oaks, California 91358. 28:36 Or in Australia, contact us at PO Box 861, 28:41 Terrigal, New South Wales 2260. 28:45 This program is made possible 28:47 through the generous support of viewers like you. 28:50 We thank you for your continued support. 28:53 May God richly bless you. |
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